{"id":743,"date":"2010-08-09T10:02:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T10:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2010-08-09T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T10:02:14","slug":"nailed_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Nailed it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/rnc_passes_cale.php\">The RNC has approved a resolution making dramatic changes to the way the GOP picks a presidential nominee, moving primaries to later dates and requiring states to allocate their delegates on a proportional basis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who called it? Your boy. Flash back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwasmisinformed.com\/2008\/02\/how_we_got_here.html\">February 20, 2008<\/a>: &#8220;If you don&#8217;t think there are going to be MASSIVE changes to the GOP selection process for 2012&#8230;I&#8217;ll take that bet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I AM the straw that stirs the drink.* Don&#8217;t let anyone tell you different.<\/p>\n<p>*It&#8217;s amazing what a genius you can be (and what an ego you can develop) just by &#8220;predicting&#8221; something as obvious as the nose on your face. This is also a tacit admission that John McCain was not the desired outcome in 2008 &#8211; although again, I maintain that anybody else would have done as bad or worse, running on the &#8220;double down Bushism&#8221; platform. The older I get, the better I was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RNC has approved a resolution making dramatic changes to the way the GOP picks a presidential nominee, moving primaries to later dates and requiring states to allocate their delegates on a proportional basis. Who called it? Your boy. Flash back to February 20, 2008: &#8220;If you don&#8217;t think there are going to be MASSIVE &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nailed it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}